Asia’s First New gTLD Premium Domain Name Live Auction Slated for March 21 - TLD Registry Ltd, the home of the essential new Chinese TLDs Dot Chinese Online (.在线) Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) confirmed today that its first major live auction event will be staged in China's Macau on March 21, 2014. TLD Registry's CEO, Arto Isokoski said, "As the first new Chinese gTLDs to come to market, it's only fitting that we celebrate our Landrush period in China. I can think of no better place for our celebration than Macau." The innovative live auction will be ... read more ...

Exploring the Various Options of Private gTLD Auctions - Now that ICANN's Last Resort Auctions are becoming an imminent reality, more and more applicants with gTLDs in contention are coming to the conclusion that they would be better off in a private auction. As a result, there is a renewed discussion of the various approaches that have been proposed. Interesting new suggestions have also been made within the gTLD applicant community. Innovative Auction's offering, the Applicant Auction, has been used to resolve contention for 21 gTLDs to date, ... read more ...

New gTLDs’ Success Drivers - This post demonstrates that success factors differ across generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) depending on their implied signal/message. Success drivers can be grouped into four: community, location, generic keywords, and competitors to .com. I discuss their marketing implications. For community gTLDs, their success, as measured by profits, depends on whether the registrants are nonprofit or for-profit organizations. The former's profits are driven by user satisfaction reflected in online reviews, ... read more ...

BEST IN LAW: Dot-com world changing – Press - The dot-com world is about to explode. The number of Internet domain names will significantly increase over the next few years with the rollout of new generic top-level domains, known as gTLDs for short. These will change the Internet experience forever, expanding the number of gTLDs from the present 22 (i.e. .com, .org., .net) to more than a thousand. The new gTLDs will indicate what the website contains and will help speed searches and Internet use. For business owners, there will be new opportunities ... read more ...

Fadi Chehadé: If We Fragment The Internet, ‘It Will Not Be The Internet As We … - Thank you, Frank, for pointing out that there was a point to this interview, and Fadi’s repsonses are direct and pertinent. What many people commenting here seem to be missing is that there is a real blowback in the wake of the NSA scandal here in the U.S., which a reading of this article, on Wired.com, will help to clarify: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/how-the-us-almost-killed-the-internet/. There are myriad forces at work to build and tear down ... read more ...

Go Daddy “thousands and thousands” of people have preregistered 25 new gtlds” - Grim its $150 for TMCH and then you can pay for DPML Brand owners must submit an exact match of their mark(s) to DPML, or a term that contains their exact match mark(s), as evidenced in a TMCH issued SMD file (defined below). Once a term is accepted to DPML, that term is blocked from registration in all Donuts TLDs for an initial period of five to ten years. A DPML subscription can then be renewed in increments of one to ten years. A domain blocked by DPML ... read more ...

Inc and the Los Angeles Times weigh in on the new gtlds - More and more non domaining publications continue to come out with stories about the new gtlds.  As we get closer to new strings being available to register many want to cover the upcoming release. Inc Magazine came out with an article, Carolyn Cutrone took this approach when it came to Start ups, From the article: Critics argue that the added gTLDs could spur mass confusion, while supporters suggest it could help small businesses stand out without having to wield inanely long Web addresses ... read more ...

A Search For SEOP Spells Digital Marketing - What does SEOP.com want with the URL digitalmarketing.com? The company, which focuses on digital marketing and search engine optimization services, just paid "six figures" for the name. The company plans to redirect its Web site to the new name within the next six weeks. Eric Schiffer, SEOP founder, calls the purchase a major step that will better represent the breadth of the company's services, talents, and proprietary technology. About 110 million domain names end in .com, out of 265 million ... read more ...

ICANN Delegates More than 100 New gTLDs to Root Zone - by Nicole Henderson on January 24, 2014Add Your Comments This week ICANN announced that more than 100 new gTLDs have been delegated into the DNS root zone, one of the final steps before registries can begin accepting registrations for new gTLDs. In October, ICANN delegated the first new gTLDs to their approved domain registries, starting with non-latin scripts. Over the past few months, ICANN has been steadily delegating ... read more ...

Advantages of gTLD Portfolio Ownership - The essay outlines the advantages to owners of managing a portfolio of gTLDs. The advantages can lead to concentrations of ownership in a few hands, which is unavoidable but not necessarily harmful to consumers. Moreover, some of the advantages can lead to profitable complementary business models. Beyond the obvious advantage of economies of scale that lead to reductions in operating costs, there are a number of other sources of advantage. First, additional value can be created by using ... read more ...

The biggest land rush in the history of the internet begins on February 4 - The web is about to have its big bang. About 1,000 new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs (the last bit of an internet address, such as the com in qz.com) will come into existence this year. On Feb. 4, anybody will be able to create and start running a website on the first of the new domains. The number of alphabets in which you can create a web address will go from one—Latin—to at least a dozen including Chinese and Arabic. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be made. And our conception ... read more ...

Name Collisions: More Thank Just a Technical Consideration - Among those looking for answers at ICANN’s March meeting in Singapore will be new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants who haven’t yet found a path to delegation due to potential name collisions. No longer is the issue of name collisions merely technical. Over the course of almost a year, it has evolved into a potential business and financial roadblock. Name collision refers to the confusion that may occur when a new gTLD string exactly matches an existing string used on an internal ... read more ...

More than 100 gTLDs added to the root so far - The Internet's name space continues to expand, with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — ICANN, the organisation that manages the Domain Name System — this morning announcing that more than 100 generic top-level domains have been added to the root zone."There are now almost five times more generic Top-Level Domains than there were only a few months ago and that translates to greater consumer choice," the president of ICANN's Global ... read more ...

First 100 Generic Internet Domains Include .Rich, .Sexy and .Ninja - Last year, the Internet opened up the doors on generic top level domains (gTLDs), letting anyone create their own ".anything" space on the web — provided they pony up $185,000. Now those generic domains have passed their first big milestone. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that there are now 100 generic TLDs that have been "delegated," one of the final steps before the domains can begin taking registrations. Among the new domains are .rich, .sexy, .ninja, ... read more ...

The biggest land rush in the history of the internet begins on February 4 - The web is about to have its big bang. About 1,000 new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs (the last bit of an internet address, such as the com in qz.com) will come into existence this year. On Feb. 4, anybody will be able to create and start running a website on the first of the new domains. The number of alphabets in which you can create a web address will go from one—Latin—to at least a dozen including Chinese and Arabic. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be made. And our ... read more ...

6 Domain Name Industry Developments to Lookout for in 2014 - 2013 was one of the most exciting and forward-looking year for our Industry, and here we are, right at the beginning of 2014. Shall we look into the crystal ball and see what the horizon up ahead likely holds for us? We hope and foresee that a lot of everyone's hard work will eventually begin to pay off this year. We also believe that the industry will witness a huge change; opportunities and possibilities that were never before thought of. 1. The Year of Internet Innovation Never before ... read more ...

The New gTLD Program: Latest Updates On Brand Protection And The … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...

Monash Uni gets top-level domain - Prepares launch of two websites. Monash University will soon begin operating its websites under the .monash domain, after becoming one of the first organisations to acquire a brand top-level domain under a program by the global body governing the internet. The Internet ... read more ...

Top 5 Reasons That Domainers Are Resisting The New Gtlds - Zero for 5 in my book .In case you want to know what desperate looks like, we are starting to get glimpses. As long as they keep demeaning and insulting professional domain investors it demonstrates that it is OUR FAULT that few want their .Crap. Unreal! You can start with Need, Want and Desire of which there is NONE and not a single one has come to challenge that premise for a very good reason. Then you can jump to the end user who has no interest whatsoever ... read more ...

Photos & Highlights From the Last Two Landmark Days at the Inaugural … - With close to 600 registrants on hand, the inaugural NamesCon Conference completed its run with 6 keynote speakers, 30 business sessions (featuring 100 speakers) and a variety of social and networking ... read more ...

Google grabs slice of interwebs for EVERYONE (who speaks Japanese) - Spare us five minutes for a short survey about end user computing? Google has announced its first successful move into new gTLDs with the launch of .みんな for the Japanese market.The registration is the world’s first open top-level domain in hiragana, one of the three scripts used to read and write Japanese, according to the web giant. Written in the Roman alphabet as “minna”, the word literally means “everyone” ... read more ...

Registering Your Trademark with the Trademark Clearinghouse – Is Your House … - “It’s happening – the biggest change to the Internet since its inception” is how the president of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division has described the new gTLD Program being implemented by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and rightfully so. The new program will result in the expansion of available generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), such as .COM, .NET or .ORG, from the list of 22 that we’ve all become familiar with through the years, to a list of possibly ... read more ...

The New gTLD Program: Latest Updates on Brand Protection and the Trademark … - The most significant development in the Internet space in recent years is the ongoing generic top-level domain (gTLD) expansion. (As a reminder, a TLD is what appears to the right of the “dot” in a domain name (i.e., .COM, .ORG, .GOV).) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has embarked on an aggressive plan to expand the Internet from just 23 gTLDs to more than a thousand gTLDs, culminating in an application process in 2012 that allowed any organization with an ... read more ...

Demand Media Files With SEC To Spin Off Domain Registries and Registrars … - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the planned spin-off of Rightside as an independent publicly traded company. “The filing marks an important step reached on Rightside’s path to becoming an independent company that will be one of the world’s ... read more ...

Name Collisions Could Pose Potential Problem for Web Hosts - Much of the coverage on new gTLDs in the hosting industry has focused on the scope of opportunity it presents for web hosting providers looking to grow their business. From extensive marketing campaigns to new tools and platforms to help customers reserve their top choices, web hosts have been busy over the past few years preparing for this growth phase of the Internet. But one issue that perhaps hasn’t seen as much coverage when it comes to new gTLDs is the concern around name collisions. ... read more ...